The History of the Prince of Wales' Own Civil Service RiflesJ. Wallis, 1921 - 429 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
140th Brigade 47th Division Adjutant advance afternoon afterwards arrived artillery attack barrage Battalion Battalion Headquarters Battalion marched Battalion moved battle became Beersheba billets bivouacs bombardment bombs Bosche British Bulgar camp Captain captured carried casualties Château Civil Service Rifles Colonel Segrave Commanding Officer Company Commanders Corps Divisional dug-outs enemy fighting fire flank forward France front line Froyennes German ground halt heavy held High Wood hill infantry journey Lance-Corporal Lewis gun Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel London Irish London Scottish machine guns miles Moringhem morning mules night November occupied parade party patrols platoon Poperinghe position Post Office Rifles Private Queen's Westminsters raid railway ranks rations reached relieved reserve rest ridge road route Salonica Second-Lieutenant sector Sergeant shell Sheria Somme soon Souchez spent took town transport troops Turk village Volunteer Wadi weather whole Wimbledon wounded yards Ypres Salient
Popular passages
Page 4 - My lord ; — I have the honour to transmit to your lordship, a...
Page 4 - Sir, — I am directed by Secretary Major-General Peel to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the...
Page 183 - Over hill, over dale, Through bush, through briar, Over park, over pale, Through flood, through fire...
Page 22 - Their porters and messengers were specially selected with a view to this purpose, and arms and uniform were provided by the Bank. The year 1875 found them a rather antiquated body of men, armed with the Brown Bess...
Page 320 - Jerusalem-Nablus road. Repeated attacks were made against Tel el Ful, a conspicuous hill from which Jerusalem and the intervening ground can be overlooked. The attacks were made by picked bodies of troops, and were pressed with great determination. At only one point did the enemy succeed in reaching the main line of defence. He was driven out at once by the local reserves. In all these attacks he lost heavily. In the meantime the enemy had delivered attacks against various points held by the 53rd...
Page 146 - Cartography marked the beginning of a new phase in the life of the Institute.
Page 295 - ... arranged round the well for the use of the cattle. A second well, 5 ft. in diameter, is found at about 300 yds. to the \V. of that just described, and in the opposite direction is a third, 23 ft. deep, which is dry. The desert of Beer-sheba is very beautiful in spring and early summer when the surface is carpeted with herbage and flowers ; but later in the year it is parched and desolate in the extreme, not a tree breaking the monotony of the landscape or the rays of the sun.
Page 20 - ... yet taken no active part in the Volunteer movement ; but the Directors, following the traditions of their predecessors of the last century, were very favourably inclined towards it. It was with little difficulty, therefore, that Mr. Kingsmill, to whose energy the...
Page 113 - I saw men torn to fragments by the near explosion of bombs, and — worse than any sight — I heard the agonised cries and shrieks of men in mortal pain who were giving up their souls to their Maker. " The mental picture painted through the medium of the eye may fade, but the cries of those poor, tortured and torn men I can never forget : they are with me always. I would I had been deaf at the time.
Page 41 - His Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to signify his royal pleasure that he will continue to remain Honorary Colonel of the Corps on its transfer to the Territorial Force.